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Tonight was the series finale for NBC’s Summer drama series, Persons Unknown. As I was watching the pilot episode in early June, I formulated my theory on what I thought was happening to the 7 unknown persons. I immediately thought of the title of the series and how close it was to one of Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone episodes titled Person Or Persons Unknown.

But there was much more in this pilot episode to look at. As the story unfolded, several Twilight Zone episodes came to mind. At the end of the pilot, I came up with this. Persons Unknown was a direct rip-off of the Twilight Zone created by Rod Serling that aired in the late 1950′s through the early 1960′s.

Three Twilight Zone episodes quickly came to mind. Person Or Persons Unknown just because of the similarity of title names plus Five Characters In Search Of An Exit and Shadow Play. Click the two links below to read the original updates for said episode.

Five Characters In Search Of An Exit
Clown. Hobo. Ballet Dancer. Bagpiper. And an Army Major. A collection of question marks. Five improbable entities stuck together into a pit of darkness. No logic, no reason, no explanation. Just a prolonged nightmare in which fear, loneliness, and the unexplainable walk hand in hand through the shadows. In a moment, we’ll start collecting clues as to the whys, the whats, and the wheres. We will not end the nightmare, we’ll only explain it, because this is the Twilight Zone.

Shadow Play
Adam Grant, a nondescript kind of man found guilty of murder and sentenced to the electric chair. Like every other criminal caught in the wheels of justice he’s scared, right down to the marrow of his bones. But it isn’t prison that scares him, the long, silent nights of waiting, the slow walk to the little room, or even death itself. It’s something else that holds Adam Grant in the hot, sweaty grip of fear, something worse than any punishment this world has to offer, something found only in the Twilight Zone.

Unlike my ABC Lost theory, this time with Persons Unknown, I was correct. I stated that Joe knew more than he led on. I said Tori would be back, just as someone else. I said that no matter what they did, they wouldn’t be able to escape.

And guess what, if you combine the two Twilight Zone Episodes above, you have the exact series of Persons Unknown. The icing on the cake, Tori becoming the new night watchman, and everyone waking up back in the hotel room and beginning the nightmare all over again.

As I was surfing around the World Wide Web today, I found myself on NBC.com and reading about the Persons Unknown Summer mini-series. I was searching for the missing episode that was promised from NBC at the beginning of the season. Ten episodes have aired and the two-hour series finale is slated for this Saturday. So where is the missing elusive Episode 11?

For those not aware, NBC has episode 11 online right now on their website. Since the ratings are tanking, apparently NBC decided not to air it on television but make it available on the Internet.

So let’s get right to the update for episode 11 titled Seven Sacrifices. I will employ the standard (*) to flesh out my points.

* Janet and her daughter Megan attend a funeral. Janet’s funeral. Megan tells her goodbye. Janet is in the coffin, she can’t move, and cries out to Megan that she is still alive, and is coming back to her some day.

* Renbe, the news reporter, hides the severed thumbs in a box of chocolates in the airlines bathroom.

* Erika tries to entice Joe to kill Liam before he steals her from both of them.

* Charlie gets an old-fashioned shave.

* Kat and Renbe go through a tense moment at customs, but get arrested in the terminal.

* Renbe gets accused of murdering Janet. Kat is free to go.

* Moira and McNair get busy. Form an alliance.

* Joe attempts to talk to Janet, she wants nothing of it. Much to Liam’s wanting.

* Kat is fired from her job, her credit card is canceled, and her bank account is empty. She was also evicted from he apartment.

* Janet tries to play Liam, uses her feminine wry’s on him. Liam bites. (Not really, you know what I mean)

* Liam shows Janet the Inner Sanctum, the command center of the program.

* Liam: What you imagine to be free will is merely an illusion. The program has been studying people for 50 years now.

* Janet kisses Liam, studies his response.

* Bill tries to talk Charlie to accept the program and become part of it. Charlie smacks him in the face and tells him it’s all manipulation and he will never join.

* Erika tells Janet her secret.

* Janet tries to seduce Liam for more information. She makes him question his values, and the program.

* The box of thumbs are brought to the See You Next Tuesday lady in charge.

* Whats wrong with this picture? Only 6 thumbs. Where’s the 7th?

* Renbe hid it in the vodka bottle.

* See You Next Tuesday lady implements a town flush. For town 27! The second one this week. There must be plenty of them around.

What does all this mean. Let me point out the obvious. I’m good at that. One rule of the program, you can never leave the program. Once you are in, you are in for life, or death.

The See You Next Tuesday lady is portrayed as Satan. She is heartless, relishes to inflict pain and suffering, and her followers, or minions, are all scarred and terrified of her.

Perhaps they are all in Hell and they captive 7 will be tortured for eternity. Just when they think they have a chance, given a glimmer of hope, it is brutally taken away. Sort of what Hell could be like.

Back from a one week hiatus, NBC Persons Unknown was back on the air Saturday for the 10th installment of the Summer series. Next Saturday the 28th is the two hour series finale where all will be revealed. before we get there, let’s look at what was revealed on Saturday.

* Tonight, we bring back the (*) to skim through the bullet points of Saturdays show.

* The new night watchman, Liam, takes over and sets the captive 7 up for a fall. He is as nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.

* Liam pampers the guests with a unique gift for each. The gifts are very personal and move the guests emotionally. Later the guests are drugged and sedated.

* We are made aware that there are multiple towns, splitting images of each other where similar experiments are performed on 7 other unlucky people.

* When the captive 7 awake from their drug induced sleep, their personalities have been tweaked. They all seem to get along better.

* The men in the blue jump suits are working over time. They are all over the place.

* News Flash: The men in blue are terrible shots. They had dead aim on the Jeep as it was driving away. Three targets, no windows, open air Jeep, and all 7 of the men couldn’t hit a tire, gas tank, one of the passengers in the Jeep. These guys need fired.

So what does the Grassy Knoll Institute think…..
Last week I announced that the captive 7 were in a virtual reality laboratory. All the participants are interconnected to one another sharing each others thoughts, memories, and feelings. While in this virtual reality laboratory, a battery of physical and mental experiments are performed on them. And who is running these experiments? A New World Order government consortium in partner with a superior race of aliens.

Tonight, let me throw out yet another theory. Perhaps they are in Purgatory, a weigh station to heaven or hell, where the men in blue are angels or demons, depending on your interpretation, to keep the damned in line. Case in point, Liam and Janet are talking at the end of the show. Liam tells her, I think you know why you are here. Because you’re dead Janet. Damn it Janet.

Next Saturday all will be revealed in the two hour series finale. I suspect NBC was hoping for a mega-type hit as Lost was for ABC. Alas, the numbers are way down, Internet buzz barely visible, and water cooler banter non-existent. Let us hope next Saturday brings us some nice surprises.

So tonight Joe gets inserted back into the group with his memory wiped. The night watch man gets his clock cleaned and one of the “Programs” higher ups is regulated to replace him. And oh yea, the director of the Program, she’s a first class “See You Next Tuesday” type of gal. (For those that don’t know LOTGK speak, chalk that up to just another mystery that needs to be solved.)

Last week I revealed my theory and I’m sticking to it this week. To refresh, my theory is….
The 7 eclectic unknown persons are in a virtual reality laboratory. All the participants are interconnected to one another sharing each others thoughts, memories, and feelings. While in this virtual reality laboratory, a battery of physical and mental experiments are performed on them. And who is running these experiments? A New World Order government consortium in partner with a superior race of aliens.

Here is my proof. Joe, a known employee of the Program, is found out, then removed from the experiment. He is then reprogrammed and re-inserted back. He has no memory of the other members and he has become very aggressive. he pretty much tears up the night manager throwing him through a plate glass window.

The Program doesn’t want anyone to know they are conducting experiments. They use their “Men in Blue” to contain information leaked out about the Program. When damaging information is about to be leaked, the men in blue eliminate the leak.

Joe was touted as the best chance for a 10th level candidate by the Program director. She wanted everything to go smooth as he was re-introduced to the town.

Notice everyone in the Program was afraid of the director and I has the feeling that everyone wished they had never heard of the Program.

So what are the odds that Tom, who was killed last week, finds his way back into the town and Program, just as Tori reentered the Program in a different capacity.

When I watched the pilot episode of Persons Unknown, I came to the conclusion that it was a rip off of the Twilight Zone and a cheap version of ABC’s Lost. I would like to modify that theory just a tad.

After watching last night’s episode, I am for certain what the show is about. (This is the part where my giant Ego can’t fit on this page) For six years on my Lost page I updated my theory after each episode. From the pilot episode to the finale episode. I stayed true to my theory. I thought it was a fairly believable one. Alas, Lost had a different scenario and we all know how the show ended.

Now, watching last night’s show, I am amending my theory. Here it is. And the Lost fans that have followed this blog for six years will know it straight away.

The 7 eclectic unknown persons are in a virtual reality laboratory. All the participants are interconnected to one another sharing each others thoughts, memories, and feelings. While in this virtual reality laboratory, a battery of physical and mental experiments are performed on them. And who is running these experiments? A New World Order government consortium in partner with a superior race of aliens.

Perhaps the boys of NBC were readers of my Lost blog. Perhaps they took my premise and ran with it. Keep in mind, my theory had elements of the Twilight Zone embedded and you can clearly see the similarities in Persons unknown as well.

To prove my theory, let’s look at last nights episode. Joe is hooked up with multiple electrodes inside a sterile hospital room. A mechanical voice is piped in reprogramming Joe to become part of the program again. Joe refuses to cooperate.

We also learn that once in the program, you can never leave the program.

There are always seven candidates, err, persons for the experiment, err, program.

Joe has been through the program before, he is someone different every time. This time he has a love interest. (Janet)

Seriously, doesn’t the town remind you of a rat maze, where the rats are let loose to follow their every movement. Various stimuli in inserted to determine how the rats will react to each stimuli. For this episode, Bill was a perfect example. Bill breaks down, realizing he has no one back home and has completely alienated himself from the other persons in the town. He pleads to the watching eye for help, he wants to leave, to go home. He also makes the statement when he found the cigarettes at the bar, that you guys must be reading his mind.

Anyway, Bill is outside and chases a book of matches outside the deadly fence line. He does not get electrocuted. He runs up the hill, looks back at the town, and after a minute states, where am I going, I have nowhere to go. Bill returns to the town, kneels down to the watching eye and states he’s back. This is a classic experiment in human conditioning.

Now about Joe and his repeat performance and Tori’s reappearance on the show which I called by the way. This episode is a remake of the Twilight Zone episode titled, Shadow Play. Here is the synopsis of the Twilight Zone episode.

Shadow Play – Original Airdate – 05/05/1961

Monologue:
Adam Grant, a nondescript kind of man found guilty of murder and sentenced to the electric chair. Like every other criminal caught in the wheels of justice he’s scared, right down to the marrow of his bones. But it isn’t prison that scares him, the long, silent nights of waiting, the slow walk to the little room, or even death itself. It’s something else that holds Adam Grant in the hot, sweaty grip of fear, something worse than any punishment this world has to offer, something found only in the Twilight Zone.

Synopsis:
Adam Grant was a man convicted of murder who tries to convince the judge and jury that he is living a nightmare, that everything around him is just an illusion that keeps repeating over and over. He states that the judge, attorneys, and jury are merely players in his dream. The judge asks why he is so concerned of dying if its only a dream and Grant says because since having this nightmare, he hasn’t been able to get any sleep because he always wakes up screaming. He tells his attorney to go home and what he originally thought was for dinner will be something else. What Grant said is true, and the attorneys friends discuss the matter and perhaps get a stay of execution on the lines of insanity. Alas, the call to the governor arrives to late and Adam Grant is electrocuted. The next day, the same events occur once again, Grant in court going through the same motions, except the characters have assumed different roles.

Epilogue:
We know that a dream can be real, but whoever thought that reality could be a dream? We exist, of course, but how, in what way? As we believe, as flesh-and-blood human beings, or are we simply parts of someone’s feverish, complicated nightmare? Think about it, and then ask yourself, do you live here, in this country, in this world, or do you live instead in the Twilight Zone?

Persons Unknown Tie-In:
Men and women in captivity. Going through the motions, each not realizing that they are in an illusion. Except one man, (Joe) who has the knowledge that an experiment is being conducted. He informs everyone that he is part of the program yet he cannot change the outcome as the scenario continues to play out.

When he wakes up, and trust me, Joe will be back on the show next week, but he will be somewhat different, the program will continue. To bolster my theory even more, Tori is now a nurse instead of the wild child she portrayed earlier.

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